FY-03 CHARGES TO THE ACADEMIC PROCEDURES AND POLICIES COMMITTEE

FY-03 CHARGES TO THE ACADEMIC PROCEDURES AND POLICIES COMMITTEE

Approved by SenEx: 6/7/02

Standing Charges

1. Confer with the Associate Provost for Academic Services and/or other administrative officials on academic matters that seem appropriate, including, but not limited to any changes in class scheduling, course duplication, and enrollment procedures.

2. Monitor issues raised by COCAO (Council of Chief Academic Officers) and the Council of Presidents of Regents' Institutions that might have implications for University policy.

3. Act on petitions for exceptions to the general graduation requirements of the University.

4. Submit to SenEx: a) the approved minutes of each meeting (minutes must be kept), b) recommendations for action as they are approved by the committee, and c) a final report by April 1, 2003. The final report should make clear what was done (or not done) about each of the charges to the committee and should make recommendations to SenEx for action. The report should also provide the names of the committee members, include suggestions for charges to, membership in, and the chair of the next year's committee.

5. Monitor Program Restructuring and Discontinuance and hold hearings and offer recommendations in accordance with USRR Article VIII.

Additional Charges

6. Form a separate committee or a sub-committee of AP&P to recommend university-wide policies and procedures for distance learning. Determine whether a separate committee to oversee distance learning needs to be created; and if so how it should be constituted. Review the report of the ad hoc Senex Committee on Distance Education approved by University Council on 4/9/98.

7. Obtain information pertinent to the statistical distribution of grades at the University by unit and upper/lower division. Investigate the role of student drop rates and other factors that may impinge upon grade distribution. Determine what policies and procedures affect these distributions, and make recommendations where needed.

8. Investigate issues related to academic misconduct, including the practices of faculty in the disposition of academic misconduct cases. Consider how to raise faculty and student awareness about formal procedures, and whether to annually publicize actions taken in academic misconduct cases throughout the University.

9. Consider whether there should be an oversight process for certificate programs. For example, should certificate programs be offered through Continuing Education. (See the 5/21/01 letter from CUSA Chair Larry Draper to College Dean Sally Frost Mason.)

10. Clarify and interpret the meaning of attendance as it relates to the academic forgiveness policy (USRR 2). Address the meaning of "attendance" and "enrollment" particularly in the following contexts: (1) does correspondence work count as enrollment? And (b) does enrolling in/withdrawing from a course count as enrollment.

11. Recommend standards and procedures for the adoption of undergraduate Minors, where such Minors involve course work outside of a school or the College.

12. Consider the possibility of adding a representative from UPSA and the Classified Senate as members of the committee, and appropriate guidelines for participation.